I'm going to keep this short--I'm still speechless, and simply can't begin to imagine how his family and close friends feel right now. The league of readers he inspired and captivated with his fiction . . . his colleagues, students, peers, teammates, publishers . . . the list goes on and on. How many lives does a man like Graham touch? Too many to count, certainly.

Now that I'm a member of the "club", it naturally strikes a nerve deeper inside me than I care to admit each time someone dies from this disease.

Listen to Graham discuss the language surrounding cancer and the people it affects, and how he doesn't want his death from lymphoma to be worded in the following clip:BBC Radio 4 Word of Mouth: Talking About Cancer

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﻿Sydney Leigh is the evil literary double of a mostly sane writer, editor, photographer, artist, English teacher, and native of the North Shore. Her poetry, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications.

Her best friend is a Border Collie, and despite holding degrees in English, Psychology, and Graphic Design, she spends most of her free time doing her teenage son’s laundry and playing rock-paper-scissors with her imaginary roommate, Ted.